Google Plus Ate My Blog, Find Me There…
I will no longer post to this blog and you can find me on Google Plus instead. I won’t write a long goodbye because this isn’t really a goodbye. Google Plus is a better platform for disseminating ideas and discussing items of interest. As of today, I’m up to an impressive 7,200+ followers on Google Plus [Read More...]
Google wants to kill your amateur blog… but that’s OK.
I believe Google wants to kill off as many hosted blogs as possible. Why? To make more money but that’s OK with me. I know that sounds strange coming from a blogger on hosted site but allow me to explain. Hosted blogs are typically funded through advertising, often Google Adsense advertising. When a blog visitor [Read More...]
Proto Podcast Mini: What do I think of Google+?
What do I think of Google+? Listen to my thoughts. Sorry about the extremely low volume. Thaddeus Preston – Proto Podcast Mini: What do I think of Google+? on Flipzu
Google Plus: Stealth Mode to Instant Competitor?
Google’s super secret social networking endeavor, Google Plus, was released this week as a “Field Test.” Many from the Google Buzz crowd and FOGs (Friends of Google) were invited along and within 48 hours it opened up to a much wider group. It is estimated (albeit unscientifically) that several thousand people now have access. I’d [Read More...]
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ThunderBolt™ by HTC Available Beginning March 17 BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon Wireless and HTC today announced that the ThunderBolt™ by HTC, exclusively from Verizon Wireless, is available on March 17 in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $249.99 with a new two-year customer agreement. Powered by Android™ 2.2, the ThunderBolt by HTC [Read More...]
Originally posted on Blogs@RelativeProgress on March 12, 2011 We need to start thinking about the web as an interwoven fabric of three conceptual layers. First, the conventional web, or as I define it the ‘compute web’, what we define today as Web 2.0, constitutes the cloud computing paradigm allowing execution of instructions across distributed network [Read More...]
Xoom, Verizon and Motorola’s Honeycomb Tablet
I was able to kick the tires on the Xoom this past week. I found it to be a very good tablet and Android 3.0 Honeycomb is clearly a step in the right direction for Android. This product almost deserves two full separate reviews of the hardware and software but I’ll keep the review concise. [Read More...]
Google’s super secret social networking endeavor, Google Plus, was released this week as a “Field Test.” Many from the Google Buzz crowd and FOGs (Friends of Google) were invited along and within 48 hours it opened up to a much wider group. It is estimated (albeit unscientifically) that several thousand people now have access. I’d [Read More...]
Miio is a mixture of every hot property on the web right now. It is a little like Facebook, Twitter, Buzz and FriendFeed. In other words, it is a social networking site. Do we really need another? The answer appears to be a resounding YES. Miio brings in the best of each of the hot [Read More...]
I budget most of my social networking time for Google Buzz. Here’s my long-winded why… Facebook support waivers and A list bloggers like Mashable speculate about the fate of MySpace, but nobody seems to be reporting on Google Buzz. Sure, it faltered out of the gate with a privacy misstep. To briefly recap: users were [Read More...]
I’m starting a buzz campaign to bring Music Mondays from Twitter to Google Buzz. For those who unfamiliar with Music Mondays, people simply tweet the music they’ve been listening to lately to generate some Twitter activity and to help spread the news about good recording artists. Music Mondays make more sense on Buzz than Twitter [Read More...]
Everyone is buzzing about how to use Google Buzz and whether it will succeed. Some are still tweeting about privacy concerns. Everyone wants to know whether Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz can coexist. In this post, I take a different approach. I begin with the assumption that Google Buzz will succeed and consider what effects [Read More...]
If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon and played around on Google Buzz, you haven’t missed much. I’ll tell you what’s been going on the past few days.
I believe that Google Buzz is primarily aimed at attracting Twitter content providers right now, not Facebook content. This is a follow up post to the video I recently posted.
![Twitter for Blackberry by RIM Leaked [Downloads]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/twitter-647fa981f276713a4988c632c1ba7bcd-200x200-6-crop.png)
Not much to say about this other than BlackBerryRocks.Com just posted the links. See the post here: http://bit.ly/9pGQjl. Use the Desktop Manager install. P.S. Can’t handle multiple accounts. P.P.S. WTF? RIM’s finally getting around to releasing a Twitter app when Twitter is about to be owned by Google Buzz? 9 million buzzes in 2 days.
Here I gripe about Google Buzz… I believe that Google Buzz has a lot of potential and I’m digging it. However, it has some kinks that need to be worked out:
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The Wall Street Journal and Mashable are reporting that Google will soon roll out a “status update” feature to Gmail similar to Facebook and Twitter. This is BIG news and “Make Gmail Social” (which appears in the Mashable headline) is now a trending topic on Twitter.
The Eagle has landed. The much anticipated UberTwitter Beta-6 has arrived. UberTwitter was named Blackberry App of the Year by Crackberry users.
Recognizing that Facebook has a significantly greater user-base than Twitter (Zynga’s FarmVille alone has more users than Twitter, reportedly), we have added a Facebook fan page. Please consider becoming a fan of Tech Bottle on Facebook. We also will continue to push our content to @techbottle on Twitter. All of the methods of following Tech [Read More...]
One of the big stories this week is that Twitter will turn a net profit this year simply due to its content sales to Google and Bing, according to Bloomberg. For a cool $25 million, Google and Bing are indexing every public tweet. Twitter’s operating expenses for 2009 will be approximately $20 million. Accordingly, Twitter [Read More...]
UberTwitter is adding two new terrific features and making changes that don’t affect the interface that will improve the app’s performance. The two noticeable changes, as shown in the pictures below of the .941 test release, are auto-complete of usernames and customizable tabs with color icons.
